Bruce Burrows, vice-president of public and corporate affairs for the Railway Association of Canada, says development of high-speed rail can be done in stages of investment. The Obama administration recently committed $8-billion.

Looking ahead, the TSB will continue to investigate accidents, striving to find out what happened, and why. We do this, and all our work, because a safe transportation system is vital to all Canadians, whether it be on our waterways, along our pipelines a

We need a third revolution in how we build our cities and in how we travel in them. This means accelerating the conversion of cars from fossil fuels to electricity and using information technology to make road and transit systems more efficient.

The federal government's two-year 'Economic Action Plan' will dole out $17-billion, mostly for infrastructure projects, over the next year, but Canada's municipalities are concerned about what will happen after the stimulus fund ends.